Conference Agenda

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 15th Sept 2026, 07:03:00am CEST

 
9:00am
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10:30am
Moody's: Private Credit
Location: LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Chair: Olivier Darmouni, HEC Paris
FI 06: Rewiring Banking: Open Banking, Crypto, and the Democratization of Assets
Location: LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Chair: Alfred Lehar, University of Calgary
SF 05: Corporate Governance and Sustainable Finance
Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Chair: Laura Starks, The University of Texas at Austin
HF 04: Household Wealth
Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Chair: Roine Vestman, Stockholm University
CF 08: Politics and Firm Behavior: Polarization, Geopolitical Risk, and Lobbying
Location: LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Chair: Frederico Belo, INSEAD
CF 07: Specific and Opaque Assets: Theory
Location: Chapel (Floor 1)
Chair: Dirk Hackbarth, Boston University
AP 08: Equity Risk Premia and Correlation Risk
Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Chair: Allan Timmermann, University of California-San Diego
AP 09: Empirical Asset Pricing with Quantities
Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Chair: Kristy Jansen, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
RE 03: Commercial Real Estate
Location: LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Chair: Sven Damen, University of Antwerp
10:30am
to
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am
to
12:30pm
ECB: Technological Innovation in Finance: Implications for Markets and Central Bank Policy
Location: LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Chair: Peter Hoffmann, European Central Bank
Chair: Angela Maddaloni, European Central Bank
FI 07: Monetary Policy Transmission
Location: LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Chair: Hans Degryse, KU Leuven
SF 06: Implications of Carbon Pricing
Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Chair: Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
HF 05: Household Choice of Financial Products
Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Chair: Kathrin Schlafmann, Copenhagen Business School
CF 09: Mergers & Acquisitions
Location: LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Chair: Henri Servaes, London Business School
CF 10: Risk, Incentives, and Liquidity in Entrepreneurial Finance
Location: Chapel (Floor 1)
Chair: Rui Silva, Nova SBE
AP 10: High-Dimensional Asset Pricing
Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Chair: Theis Jensen, Yale University
AP 11: Public Policy and Asset Prices
Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Chair: Lukas Schmid, University of Southern California
RE 04: Housing Inequality and Access
Location: LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Chair: Arpit Gupta, NYU Stern School of Business
12:30pm
to
2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
to
3:30pm
FSMA: The Future of Equity Financing: The Role of Public and Private Markets
Location: LR M0.1 (Floor 0)
Chair: Francois Koulischer, University of Luxembourg
FI 08: New Perspectives in Bank Lending to Firms
Location: LR M0.2 (Floor 0)
Chair: Diana Bonfim, ECB and Católica Lisbon
SF 07: Sustainable Investment and Real Effects
Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0)
Chair: Lin Peng, Baruch College
MM 04: Client Order Execution Quality
Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0)
Chair: Laurence Daures, ESSEC Business School
CF 11: Shareholder Power
Location: LR M1.2 (Floor 1)
Chair: Josef Zechner, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
CF 12: Top Executives and Their Incentives
Location: Chapel (Floor 1)
Chair: Marco Becht, Université libre de Bruxelles
NBIM: Understanding the Long-run Drivers of Asset Prices
Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2)
Chair: Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, BI Norwegian Business School
AP 12: Asset Pricing in Networks
Location: LR M2.2 (Floor 2)
Chair: Bernard Herskovic, UCLA Anderson School of Management
AP 13: New Perspectives on Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing
Location: LR M2.3 (Floor 2)
Chair: Kris Boudt, Ghent University
3:30pm
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4:00pm
Walking groups will depart every 5 minutes starting at 15:30. The Handelsbeurs (same location as the Welcome Reception) is about a 10-minute walk from Vlerick.

Walking groups will depart every 5 minutes starting at 15:30.

The Handelsbeurs (the same location as the Welcome Reception) is about a 10-minute walk from Vlerick Business School.

4:00pm
to
5:40pm
GA: General Assembly - Prize Ceremony - Keynote Address
Location: Handelsbeurs

7:30pm
to
11:00pm
Conference Dinner
Location: Old Fish Market (Oude Vismijn)